I had a Martin Savannah, and have had three Hill's, i still own two of them. I like the Hill bows better than I did the Martin. As far as performance goes, when i have been at shoots this year, lots of comments have been made about how quiet my hill is and also how many people have said they didn't know a hill was that fast. I shot my redman through a chrono. at denton, it was casting an 500gr arrow 165fps that is out of a straight limbed longbow pulling 47# @27" there are faster bows but mine will kill any whitetail that roam-es around these parts. The savannah stacked at my 27" draw my Hills don't. Hills are not for everyone but they are good bows IMHO, if held properly they have no hand shock. I like the yew in the redman better than the bamboo in my bigfive, the halfbreed has a little of both you might look into one of them. Good luck with your quest for a longbow any longbow is fun to shoot.